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Mary Gaitskill’s debut short fiction collection exploring desire and damage includes the story Secretary, a darker version of the S&M relationship between a secretary and her boss, from which the film of the same name was developed.

A collection of 22 contemporary takes on female submission and desire.

Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by Anne Rice writing as A. N. Roquelaure

This erotic series loosely based on the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale and touching on BDSM, erotic role play and bisexuality made more money for the author than her best-selling Interview with a Vampire.

The Story of O by Anne Desclos writing as Pauline Reage

Classic 1958 French novel of bondage and domination was thought to have been written by a man until the author Anne Desclos revealed shortly before her death in 1998 she had written the book when her lover declared no woman could write like the Marquis de Sade.

Delta of Venus and Little Birds by Anais Nin

These two volumes of literary erotica include poetic explorations of exhibitionism and voyeurism and became bestsellers when they were published after the death of their author in 1977.

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